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Or an "influencer" with many followers could post the barcode and create a DDoS attack.

Only if the followers “save” the image into their photos, no?

Ah, looks like I misunderstood. I thought that it was just seeing it in the web browser, period. So this is some kind of thumbnail gneration thing.

Might be cached though. Who knows if that could be picked up.

How are you going to send it to them in such a way that it wouldn’t be glaringly obvious to a court that they were sent it unsolicited?

If your threat model is the government fabricating evidence then why even bother, just arrest them, “collect” a USB drive at their house with CP and lie.

I mean hell why even bother with the song and dance, just send them the link and iMessage preview will do it too.

If it's sitting in your browser's cache, how do you determine wether it's there unsolicited or not? That's the problem already with real-time ad brokering. And it's easy to set any images to "display: none" with CSS, but they would still be loaded in the background. Now explain that to a court.

Totally not an overreaction.

I am more worried about browsing Reddit, and steganography has put that horrible things into it, so I am looking at a picture of a tree and something horrible is in it. Seriously, imagine a tree being 'bound' to evil.

A high school friend Bruce told me about that and I flipped the fuck out. That guy told me that and I went what the fuck is wrong with people. I want to browse a decent godddamn internet. It should have stayed Arpanet considering the users. Military technology should be used by the military alone in my opinion.

The US government isn't that fucked up. Cops just sprinkle crack on people.

> The US government isn't that fucked up

Well, as it is worth remembering, we killed 286,000 (mostly innocent) people in 3 days to win a war...

> Cops just sprinkle crack on people.

I wouldn't blame cops - I'd blame the FBI. If they planted it, and said you had it because they investigate that kind of thing (and they have tons of examples for material), you're screwed. Very convenient way to silence a dissident and silence the supporters... (not saying they have but in the future...)

I've literally had a cop plant drugs on me, and one of my hometowns recently had a big bombshell where a bunch of cops were indicted for doing the same thing, so I'm not sure you know what you're talking about.

> The US government isn't that fucked up.

1. See MK Ultra

2. There are other governments then the US

>The US government isn't that fucked up.

hahaha

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